believing in god - the small difference
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
brought to you by the friendly atheist.
just a random bunch of facts
Thursday, February 7th, 2008bonus !
if you are using firefox or safari, highlight the entire thing and be amazed.
if you are using internet explorer– wtf, get a real browser.
Any month that has a Friday the 13th als o has a Wednesday the 25th. John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer. In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single large st employer. Jim Gordon, drummer of Der ek and the Dominos (”Layla”), killed his mother with a claw hammer. One of Hewl ett Packard‘s first ideas was an automat ic urinal flusher. Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song “Layla“. That was Duane Allman. Cla pton comes in later. As you age, your e ye color gets lighter. There are more c ars in Southern California than there ar e cows in India. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows. The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats. Illi nois has the most personalized license p lates of any state. There are two credit cards for every person in the United St ates. The international telephone diali ng code for Antarctica is 672. The aver age chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in i t. San Francisco cable cars are the only National Monuments that move.
for more facts visit this link.
the awesome highlight thing can be found here.
nembrotha cristata and friends !
Monday, February 4th, 2008this is the ‘nembrotha cristata’ or as i like to call it, a cabbage snail.
and here are a few other totally sweet snails :
to read more about these little dudes visit this page.
russian spetsnaz. oh wow.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
russian spetsnaz is the term for the russian special forces.
and these guys are insane.
this is the most ninja warfare style i have ever seen and these dudes can probably kill you without laying a finger on you. literally.
watch this amazing video of a rare demonstration of their secret technique.
(from the video - in russian ) :
“this maneuver was allowed to be filmed only because at the same time it was being demonstrated to the US special forces”
the second part of the video shows the elite technique of no-contact combat
this, they really didn’t want to demonstrate …
… you don’t have to believe anything, no one was going to be proving anything to us anyway.
so this american reporter didn’t believe what they were showing him.
what he didn’t know was that he was going to get all ninja’d upon, and this guy pinched his brain from the inside without even touching him.
yea.
A pedestrian hit me and went under my car
Monday, January 28th, 2008this is straight from a post on idiocrasiesoftheenglishlanguage.blogspot.com that i found funny.
Accident insurance claim forms ask for a brief statement about how the accident happened. The combination of the finger pointing instinct and the small spaces provided on the forms can lead to some curiously phrased explanations.
here are some that i liked best, check the post for the rest :
- Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have
- The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him.
- In my attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.
- I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him.
- An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle, and vanished.
good stuff..
also check out the ‘puns in crime‘ post !
- A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
- When a thief stole several volumes from the library he was quickly booked.
this is funtastic !
‘fairly tense experience’ or ‘grade a fucked’ ?
Thursday, January 24th, 2008this photo had me googling ‘kyak vs white shark’ ..
apperantly this is a real photo and is the dude wasn’t even eaten.
here is some info :
Sitting in a 3.8-metre sea kayak and watching a four-metre great white approach you is a fairly tense experience. Although we had extensively tested the sharks’ reactions to an empty kayak and had observed no signs of aggression, this gave us little comfort as we eyed a great white heading straight for us, albeit slowly.
read more on the snopes page, or this article.
the photographer who took the photos has more -
(you can visit his blog here)
the shark must have just eaten.. or what.
eating sushi is serious business
Monday, January 7th, 2008did you know you have to enter a sushi place a certain way ?
or that when eating alone you should always express a bit of guilt ?
the japanese have very interesting and a strict set of rules regarding food and almost everything has a social standard- whether arriving, eating, paying or leaving, some things are expected. it’s just that you wouldn’t expect to see them anywhere else.
being expected to say “maa maa maa” and “oh toh toh toh” while pouring drinks to each others drinks at every meal is one example.
watch this great video for more great facts and lessons on how to eat sushi like a ninja.
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